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Mark Morford vs. Safeway (and Albertsons, and Giant, and Krogers, and...)

04/15/05 @ 08:00:57 am, by Kate Hopkins

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Do I need to tell you how much I love Mark Morford, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle?

I do? Well I love him, even more so today for putting to words what I've long thought about these bastions of republican food dispersal units.

A beautiful snippet:

Remember how when you were a little kid and you drank gallons of pasteurized two-percent milk with your Oreos and you thought it was amazing and good? And then when you reached adulthood you (hopefully) got away from that nasty stuff and maybe switched to nonfat or even (hopefully) soy or almond or rice milk because you learned that milk is for babies and besides, those sad cows are pretty much bathed in noxious hormones and chemicals from birth? Remember?

And then one day you just so happened to be handed a glass of old-school milk and you remembered your happy childhood, so you took a big swig and almost gagged because it tasted like thick liquid phlegm and you were like, "Oh my God, how the hell did I ever drink this crap?" Supermarket Syndrome is exactly like that, except with buildings.

Please, oh please go read the whole thing.

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Comment from: jin [Visitor] · http://www.enemykombatant.blogspot.com

definitely a great passage

Permalink 04/15/05 @ 11:40

Comment from: Tara C [Member]

· http://www.dementedkitty.com

Did you notice that all the Google ads at the bottom of that article were either for, or had something to do with, Albertson's, Giant, or Von's?

Permalink 04/15/05 @ 12:31

Comment from: haddock [Visitor] · http://knifesedge.typepad.com/knifes_edgerestaurant_ran/

Nice writing but one thing is funny. He talks about 2% milk being old school. I'm not sure there was such a thing as 2% milk when I was of milk drinking age.

I do remember going to our neighbor's dairy with a lot of old gallon mayonnaise jars, getting them filled with milk and then skimming off the nearly quarter container of cream the next morning.

Permalink 04/16/05 @ 08:22

Comment from: jillian [Visitor] · http://cookiesinheaven.blogspot.com/

I LOVE Mark Morford!

Permalink 04/16/05 @ 10:50

Comment from: Doc [Visitor]

What does republican have to do with this rant - albeit his point is an excellent one, why politicize it? The dems have taken lots of money from the Safeway/Vons/Albertsons of the world. Starbucks - the Safeway of the coffe industry - is all Dem. So not sure why you have to politicize this. Get over it.

Permalink 04/17/05 @ 09:05

Comment from: Kate Hopkins [Member]

· http://www.accidentalhedonist.com

I politicize because I can. Because Safeway gives a majority of their politcal contributions to Republicans(84%). In fact, a near majority of national branded supermarkets give more than 70% of their political donations to republicans. Hence my entirely valid claim that these supermarkets are republican bastions. When they start giving money that similar to the demographic of their consumers, I'll stop referring to them as republican.

The only nationwide chain that gives more than 70% to democrats is CostCo.

As far as Starbuck,s argument? It's not valid here, as they do not sell groceries, which is what the post was about. But if you want to make a case against them, go right ahead... on your own blog...much like I make my case against Safeway et al.

For references go to Political Money Line

Permalink 04/17/05 @ 10:39

Comment from: Miss Emma [Visitor]

I read this when it came out, it was a fabulous article! *sigh* Food is just not respected as much as it should be, eh? I hate Wal*Mart food shves. They're scary. :) To Doc: With Mark Morford, everything has to do with the republicans and how much they screw up the world. Thats what i love about him Em

Permalink 06/13/05 @ 10:45

Comment from: Aldrone [Visitor]

Can't stand Mark Morford, though valid points he has in this article. I'm not a repub. but I just want to know who he would bash if he didn't have them? When you stop to think, he should be kissing their feet (and maybe he is!) for giving him so much constant fodder. I mean reall, what would he do for a living if they didn't exist?

Permalink 08/24/05 @ 19:45

Comment from: Mark [Visitor] · http://vegetarianduck.blogspot.com

I for one, have decided to start replacing "Republicans" in all of my complaints about America's current level of deluded insanity with the phrase "fatally self-indulgent, willfully ignorant, utterly artless, usually moneyed, mostly white, scared-to-death slaves to convenience and digestible mediocrity".

Because that way no one can accuse me of politicizing anything, i'm just a classist, racist, elitist complainer.

Permalink 07/05/06 @ 10:35

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